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  • Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door.

    Grief   Doors   Guests  
  • Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.

    Sweet   Memories   Real  
    Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.219, Harper Collins
  • All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.

    Queens   Car   Albums  
    Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.16, Harper Collins
  • Sometimes, when something really great happens to me, I like to wait two weeks before I tell anyone about it, because I like to use the word 'fortnight'.

    Two   Waiting   Use  
  • Some people in England only have their wheelie bins collected once a fortnight. Their suffering is unimaginable.

    Funny   Humor   People  
  • The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the mystery of being. It's more like being smothered in warm cocoa. There's sex, but it's not what you think. Marvellous, for the first fortnight. Then every Wednesday. If there isn't a good late-night concert on the Third. Meanwhile you become a biological functionary. An agent of the great female womb, spawning away, dumping its goods in your lap for succour. Daddy, daddy, we're here, and we're expensive.

    Sex   Real   Struggle  
  • The triumph of hope over experience.

    Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1770)
  • Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again.

    Mother   Son   Years  
    Jane Austen (2008). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.285, Penguin
  • I was never molested by any person but those who represented the State. I had no lock nor bolt but for the desk which held my papers, not even a nail to put over my latch or windows. I never fastened my door night or day, though I was to be absent several days; not even when the next fall I spent a fortnight in the woods of Maine. And yet my house was more respected than if it had been surrounded by a file of soldiers.

    Fall   Night   Jail  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.104, Simon and Schuster
  • If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation.

    George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.196, Bantam
  • Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.

    Keys   Order   Color  
    David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.445, Random House
  • Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?" "Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.

    Angel   Done   Said  
    Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Annotated Little Women with English Grammar Exercises: by Louisa May Alcott (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.253, Powell Publications, LLC
  • In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

    Use   Next   Fortnight  
    In letter from A. J. Balfour to 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, 24 March 1886, in A. J. Balfour 'Chapters of Autobiography' (1930) ch. 16
  • In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

    London   Spirit   Born  
  • It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.

    Baby   Men   Support  
    D. H. Lawrence (2013). “Etruscan Places”, p.31, Read Books Ltd
  • Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

    Samuel Richardson (2015). “Clarissa Harlowe V1: the history of a young lady”, p.168, 谷月社
  • I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.

    Book   Writing   Air  
  • Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?

    Stars   Lying   Sadness  
    Sarah Ruhl (2006). “The Clean House and Other Plays”
  • She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.

    Hands   Found   Fortnight  
    1937 'Prothalamion'.
  • You're much better than fireworks. They're all over in a moment, and you're going to stay for a fortnight. Besides, fireworks are noisy, and they make too much smoke.

    Kate Ross (2012). “Cut to the Quick: Julian Kestrel #1”, p.19, Felony & Mayhem Press
  • The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.

    "The Life of Hilaire Belloc". Book by Robert Speaight, 1957.
  • I've decided to call him Norbert,' said Hagrid, looking at the dragon with misty eyes. 'He really knows me now, watch. Norbert! Norbert! Where's Mummy?' 'He's lost his marbles,' Ron muttered in Harry's ear. 'Hagrid,' said Harry loudly, 'give it a fortnight and Norbert's going to be as big as your house. Malfoy could go to Dumbledore at any moment. Hagrid bit his lip. 'I- I know I can't jus' dump him, I can't.' Harry suddenly turned to Ron. 'Charlie,' he said. 'You're losing it too,' said Ron. 'I'm Ron, remember?

    Eye   Dragons   Giving  
  • In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.

    "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.
  • When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.

    School   Air   Aberdeen  
  • When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

    Carpe Diem   Men   Focus  
    Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 19 Sept. 1777)
  • I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.

    Dad   Kids   Drawing  
  • Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.

    Mad   Impossible   Said  
    Alexandre Dumas (2013). “Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)”, p.3117, Delphi Classics
  • You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer to your actuality. Then you drop it like a pebble into Framework 2, forget about it as much as possible for a fortnight, and do this in a certain rhythm.

  • I think it's great some hotels provide stationery. Because the first thing I like to do when I get to a hotel room is write a letter. "My dearest Gwendolyn, I arrived by nightfall at the Embassy Suites. It will be a fortnight after my return that this letter shall arrive. Allow me to explain the curious charge at the ledger. It is because I miss thee so much, darling, I accidentally ordered Sorrority Sisters 7."

  • In my local newspaper, they had this advert: 'please look after your neighbours in the cold weather'. I live next door to this 84-year-old woman, and do you know, not once has she come round to see if I'm all right. The lazy cow hasn't even taken her milk in for a fortnight.

    Taken   Doors   Years  
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